OMG that kid looks like he got hit upside the head with a 2x4...overall i have to say that these are totally disturbing. So much UNtalent out there-- what was it about the 70s? Were there so many little studios where you could go in, record a record and take a picture for the cover and have an "album"? Wow -- how hopelessly pathetic!
A little 1970's history is in order:
If you wanted to listen to music AM radio was king. They played top 40 relentlessly. I kid you not, you could hear Led Zeppelin followed by The Carpenters followed by The Who followed by Hot Chocolate followed by The Osmond Brothers followed by CW McCall's Convoy...I can still recall Christmas break hearing Band On The Run (Paul McCartney) playing at least every hour right after Time In A Bottle (Jim Croce) on WABC Radio. WNBC was more risque with Imus In The Morning. That was NY City radio. And it was hell!
Now, my older sisters were rebels so they tuned into FM. Now, FM was the abode of black R&B, college stations playing punk/new wave, musak, and AOR Rock which meant you would hear Pat St. John mellow out to the entire album of Abbey Road while smokin a few doobies. Yeah, I'm talking albums that skipped relentlessly. So if Pat St john or Tony Pig were at the john while Side Two skipped for five minutes --so be it! Damn them all to hell, I still can hear "Carry That Weight" skipping relentlessly at the guitar medley...over and over and over and over. What's a little boy to do: Go downstairs and watch Space 1999?
Enter disco. Disco took over all of AM until the only airplay rock had was FM. Everything became disco. Disco nights, Boogie Nights, Boogie Ooggie Ooggie, Boogie Machine, Disco Duck, and Leo "I'm in Dante's Inferno" Sayers!!!
You see, my friend, there were very little options. We had to listen. And down south in the Bible Belt they heard only the Country/Western. And it wasn't the kind you heard at the honky tonk, it was what the big whigs wanted you to hear. And in some places C&W was the devil's music, which left you only Bluegrass Gospel and regular gospel.
The 1970's were HELLLLLLLLL!!!!!!!!! At least for me.